Behold a plastic item manufactured in Communist China for less than a dime and intended for the amusement of little Yankee kiddies, hopefully without sending lead and date rape drugs down their gullets. It’s one of 2,754 such items I’m currently heating and cooling somewhere in my house.
This one has a fast food kids’ meal look about it, though it easily could have come in a cereal box, or on a $4.99 blister-packed Sheet-O-Crap. You swing it around, and it makes a (really rather inoffensive, as these things go) sound somewhere between a rap and a ding.
It was also at the center of this, which Lea retold thusly:
Nathan: “Look, it goes left to right.”
Aaron: “No, it goes back and forth.”
Nathan: “Left to right.”
Aaron: “Back and forth.”
Nathan: “Left to right!”
Aaron: “Back and forth!”
Nathan: “LEFT TO RIGHT!”
Aaron: “BACK AND FORTH!”
Then they started arguing about something else.
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How about “side to side?”
Yeah, come to think of it, it does have a faint jack o’lantern pattern on the green bit there. Good call, Mrs. Chili.
Brina: Surely you mean to and fro.
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